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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * Wi-Fi routers are cheaper, faster, and easier to set up. * Mesh systems fix dead zones with wider coverage. * Choose based on budget, home size, and connection needs. In the era of flexible work, a rock-solid
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Remote work and home offices are becoming more prevalent, changing people's tech demands. A reliable internet connection is now just as important (if not more) than having a capable laptop or smartphone. While the router provided by your internet service provider may be good enough for a household
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The Trump administration is quietly considering a rule change that could make it easier for polluters to build facilities—including certain gas plants and diesel generators that power data centers—with little to no notice to the public. On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency held a public hearing on a
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Other Good MagSafe Wallets ESR Geo Wallet Stand:Apple’s Find My app lets you track your devices if they’re lost, and ESR’s Geo wallet has it built right into the wallet itself. This is the wallet I’ve been using for the past few weeks, and outside
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Credit: The Light Phone, Inc. If you're annoyed by the drive to constantly look at your smartphone but aren't ready to switch to a "dumbphone," here's an in-between option: the Light Flip phone. Launched by the makers of the Light Phone on
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. We all depend on having a reliable Wi-Fi connection to get work done, to connect with friends and family, to power our smart home devices and streaming services, and so much more, so it's essential to have a
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Great news for 4K Blu-ray fans: the huge half-price sale on Criterion Collections discs is still running at Barnes & Noble, and Amazon has some of the same discounts running too. Slightly more concerning news: the sale ends on July 26, so you only have a few days left to
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind the Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that aren’t cleared for export to China. “Large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.
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In Europe, the rise in gas prices due to the Iran war has car buyers thinking about electrics more than ever before. Battery-electric vehicle (BEV) sales were up more than 33 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same time last year, according to data published by
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* Dataintelo reports that the used video game market is worth $7.2 billion * The firm thinks that Sony's decision to end the production of discs will cause it to decline * Analysts say the market will "keep shrinking and eventually disappear" The second-hand video game market could
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Last year, thousands of customers at one of the UK's biggest banking groups were locked out of their accounts. This cut people off from their own money, leading to declined cards, missed payments. VP Head of Data & AI at Valtech. Across the UK, major banks and building
